Alope

Role: daughter of Cercyon · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5

Alope was the daughter of Cercyon and the mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon. In Book 1, Chapter 39, Cercyon put her to death; the account says she was “in consequence put to death by her father Cercyon.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Cercyon put Alope to death.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
  • With: Cercyon
  • “Alope, who they say was the mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon, and was in consequence put to death by her father Cercyon.”

Book 1 · Chapter 5

• child: Hippothoon “Hippothoon, the son of Poseidon by Alope the daughter of Cercyon”
• parent: Cercyon “Alope the daughter of Cercyon”

Book 1 · Chapter 39

• parent: Cercyon “was in consequence put to death by her father Cercyon”
• child: Hippothoon “the mother of Hippothoon by Poseidon”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.